Do you know why there’s no bridge connecting Sicily and mainland Italy?
The two are separated by the Strait of Messina, which is just 3 kilometers at its narrowest point. That’s four times shorter than Portugal’s 12-kilometer Vasco da Gama Bridge and almost 17 times shorter than the 50-kilometer Channel Tunnel linking the UK and France. So, what’s stopping Italy from building a bridge here?
You see, the Strait of Messina lies on a fault line between the African and Eurasian tectonic plates, which is why, in 1908, the region experienced a catastrophic 7.1 magnitude earthquake—one of the deadliest in European history—highlighting the extreme seismic risks of the area.
But that’s not the only challenge. The strait’s narrow shape funnels strong southerly winds, accelerating them to speeds of up to 120 kph; making constructing a bridge here, even riskier.
And if that wasn’t enough, critics argued that such a project could waste public funds or even benefit the Italian mafia.
Yet, despite all this, Italy is finally moving forward with building what will be the world’s longest suspension bridge ever.
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do you know why there’s no Bridge connecting Sicily and Mainland Italy the two are separated by the straight of MSA which is just 3 km at its nearest Point that’s four times shorter than Portugal’s 12 km Vasco deama bridge and almost 17 times shorter than the 50 km Channel tunnel linking the UK and France so what’s stopping Italy from building a bridge here you see the straight of MSA lies on a fault line between the African and Eurasian tectonic plates which is why in 1908 the region experienced a catastrophic 7.1 magnitude earthquake one of the deadliest in European history highlighting the extreme seismic risks of the area but that’s not the only challenge The Straits narrow shape funnel strong southerly winds accelerating them to speeds of up to 120 kmph making constructing a bridge here even riskier and if that wasn’t enough critics argued that such a project could waste public funds or even benefit the Italian mafia yet despite all this Italy is finally moving forward with building what will be the world’s longest suspension bridge ever
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The tectonic plate of Africa is splitting and in almost 5 billion years later it will join India
Non serve sarà solo…. UN MURO, invece bisognerebbe fare e di traverso ché nessuno pensi di farci una strada sola per attraversarlo …..
WE DONT NEED THAT
IM FROM MESSINA
as a dude from Messina i see this all day
Con meno di un decimo si potrebbe traghettare con moderne navi, tutto il resto esiste già da un centinaio d'anni, il traghettamento è una mini crociera! Il ponte ha criticità irrisolvibili, non esiste nessun istituto, al mondo, che possa certificare la tenuta dei cavi, il ponte non avrebbe garanzie di nessun tipo e in assoluto non potrebbe sostenere il peso di un treno, potrebbe essere una buona pista ciclabile, niente di più!!!
E per la mafia
you forgot to say that since it has to be above a fault, the depth is many km underwater, therefore piling would be very difficult, which is why the bridge project foresees a single span!! the bridges you mentioned which are much longer surely rest on more spans! to date this bridge would be the largest in the world with a single span, the second is in Turkey and is half as long!!!
Speriamo non lo facciano
No One is talking about gioia tauro's port, 2nd biggest in Italy, and right under it lies Palmi, my hometown. I live at via scinà 158, my house number is 27. Come visit me sometime (im not capping)
No al ponte deturperebbe il meraviglioso paesaggio naturale…
Guys i'm italian and also Calabrese that is ome of the two regions that involve thi bridge we could say,in fact it would connect Sicily and Calabria,and my brothers are both engineers and another fact why they can't build it is also because no matter how stron it is it will probably "fall" probably while building it or in not too long time
It's the lair of Scylla 😂
It’s hard to build a bridge when Scylla and Charybdis are trying to eat you
i live in Reggio Calabria, which Is the closest city to the straight of Messina and i can confirm that the most of the people doesn't want It because It would destroy so much Animals and plants that live there
The problem is not politics, magic or money, the real problem is that the bridge would be built between the African and European aquifers and technically the safety of people cannot be guaranteed.
Im italian and live there
The real reason is that "Caronte & Tourist" the company that ships people and obgect, is the only one that there if they build a brigde they will fail
Io sono italiano
Finiranno il ponte per Messina quando sarà terminato il ponte per Messina.
On maps you see they are connected by a land connection
it’s cause no one wants to get killed by scylla and charybdis 🤓☝️
They're scared of Scylla and Charybdis
Make a bridge that has resistance to wind and earthquake, make it also undestructable and durable, not a standard bridge design but futuristic materials made of not cement blocks but also cauble stones, rocks, platinum and aluminum metals, and titanium aloys and strongest girthy ropes like the one that used on huge boat ships
So technically Sicily is an African island 😂
So even naturally Sicily ain't a part of Italy. Lies on a different plate, gets seperated by strong winds, nature reallt doesn't want them to unite 😂
They'll never make it. The government just wants an excuse to give money to their friends. They will only build a never ending building site
Anti italians (inferiority complex people) still thinking we can't do that….they have spent decades telling us that the flood barrier to save venice (mose) entirely built by us italians was useless…reality:mosed is working since 3 years and saved venice from several catastrophic floods, you will cry again😂….LET'S BUILD THE BRIDGE
It has been approved
Even though, the bridge can be built safely.
Guess what: they are building the bridge now
Cruise Ships pass thru this strait. Last week only our cruise ship crossed this straight
Just to be clear 95% of italians are against this idea
I was about to see a video of why there was no bridge between sicily and italy and saw this short and guess never mind…
Now the project is greenlit. Expected cost is 13 billion Euros.